The importance of timeouts
Timeouts are not an exciting thing to talk about. They do not add immediately perceivable value. They are difficult to guess get right and force one to consider problems that are hard to solve. In fact, in my experience, the timeout is only ever considered when our software stops working or is about to. That is an…
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Nowadays using a production like database in unit1 tests is a common practice. Calling a real database can increase our confidence that a tested code actually works. Having said that a database, by its very nature, brings external state into a test that will affect its behavior, hence we need to pay special attention…
ReadSimple Config Sections 1.2 released
About a week ago I’ve released another version of SimpleConfigSections. It’s marked and you can install it through . What is SimpleConfigSections? SimpleConfigSections is a little library that simplifies defining .net configuration sections. As you can see in the mentioned msdn documentation the amount of boilerplate…
ReadAndroid Data Binding Part 2: Observer pattern to the bone
In the previous part I’ve described typical problems we have to face when developing applications on Android. I’ve also highlighted that some of them may be mitigated when data binding API is utilized properly. It’s time to dive into more details of how this promising API works. Observer Pattern At the root of many of…
ReadAndroid Data Binding Part 1: Why it is important
Android application code often suffers from being more verbose than it could be. As libraries such as Android Annotations and ButterKnife have shown that’s only partially due to tediousness of Java. The recently announced Android Data Binding library can remove at least part of the boilerplate code we need to write…
ReadHandling different user types in android application
In the previous post you can read how to use object to maintain current user information through the application lifecycle. Now we’ll explore different options of implementing varying behavior depending on user type. When an app has only one user type I find it neat when an application allows me to use it before I’m…
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